CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOW - JULY 11TH 2022

D I S R U P T I O N

Blockade Australia on the streets and in parliament

Produced by Vivien Langford

Guests :

Sue Higginson MLC -  Sue has been responsible for high profile environmental litigation in Australia. She has represented communities challenging mining giants, proponents of environmentally harmful development and holding Governments to account for the environment. She has delivered environmental legal services to rural, remote and regional communities and First Nations communities across NSW.

You can find the footage and audio of Sue speaking in support of Abigail Boyd’s disallowance motion in the NSW Parliament at this link - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Aw3o0V1T5qG-D9kwjqqA__IVuwLPFAXE/view?usp=sharing

Blockade Australia -  Members interviewed  in a safe location and also in their week of Non Violent Disruptive Climate Action in Sydney June 2022

Aunty Caroline Kirk - First Nations Ngemba Elder arrested at the B.A Camp

Tom Hume  - Singing Petition for Dovetale:   https://dovetalemusic.bandcamp.com/releases

As nurses and teachers were on strike outside, inside the NSW parliament they were consolidating the police state.

Forty eminent and alarmed civil society groups  such as the Human Rights Law Centre, the MUA, Environmental Defenders Office and 350.ORG had petitioned the parliament in the accepted way. However, the government and opposition ignored their pleas and  voted against a disallowance motion to their harsh new anti protest laws.

No wonder then  that non violent disruptive action seems to be the only way to stop our system fuelling more climate disruption. We interview some of the Blockade Australia people  who have come from all over the country to Sydney, where colonisation began and where the extractive and destructive system is most clearly seen.

One person, whose own life has been disrupted by the Lismore floods, Mali,  said as a man swore and shouted at her, and she was locked into a car blocking a tunnel,  "To this man I would say I stand with you. It is for you, it is for your family that we do this. It's for everyone, people we love, that we take this stand. It is for all of us that we need our life support systems."

Meanwhile climate events are disrupting the traffic, with flooded roads and landslides on rail tracks. What would it take for the parliament to send its hellicopters and dog squads to arrest the real climate criminals?

To charge them with disrupting the traffic. To charge them with the massive costs they are inflicting on our homes and crops. To connect their profitable coal oil and gas export, their landclearing and  their global supply chains  with the over  heated  oceans turbo charging the flooding rains?

Blockadia is making this thinkable, when will it be possible?

https://theconversation.com/blockadia-helped-cancel-the-keystone-xl-pipe...

We talk to the blockaders and to Sue Higginson lawyer and member of NSW Parliament.

You can read Sue's  full speech in parliament (above) As there were so few MPs in the room and they can not have been moved by her words we are broadcasting it to a larger audience. Let us know what action you decide to take by leaving a messager at 3CR  03 94198377